From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David G Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dglegge01@gmail.com" target="_blank">dglegge01@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU">
<div><p><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Improving health worldwide is not merely a matter of technical intervention or resource mobilization, but also demands credible, legitimate decision-making processes and effective, efficient and equitable action. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.5pt">There is growing recognition that global governance processes outside the health sector such as those relating to security, finance, trade environment, agriculture, and migration, increasingly affect health – both negatively and positively. There are, however, no satisfactory mechanisms to protect and promote health in other governance arenas. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.5pt">The Lancet-Uio Commission on Global Governance for Health was launched in Oslo in December 2011 in response to an invitation by The Lancet, and a call by the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre for an academic commission on global governance for health, as a way of promoting new thinking that would move beyond the conventional wisdom. The Commission sees it as a key task to bring new research and analysis to bear on questions about the need to engage beyond the health sector to solve key challenges in global health. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:11.5pt">The Commission comprises 18 renowned researchers and policy makers. The members were selected and invited by the University of Oslo according to criteria of bringing diverse geographical, disciplinary and personal perspectives to the table (see enclosed list of participants with short biographies). Rector at the University of Oslo, Ole Petter Ottersen serves as Chair. Jashodhara Dasgupta, who is from India and a researcher and policy advocate on women’s health, is the Vice Chair. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Home-page and blog: </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:blue"><a href="http://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/global-governance-health/" target="_blank">http://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/global-governance-health/</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:110%">Email: <a href="mailto:info-ggh@helsam.uio.no" target="_blank">info-ggh@helsam.uio.no</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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